on Apr 6th, 2007Social Space – the (s)p[l]ace to be
Its official!! Social Space on the web is the hottest space to be. Yesterday, we had the Big Thinkers Session by folks at Yahoo R & D. Andrew Tomkins of Yahoo addressed a strong audience about trends in the social space and also web search. The social space is slowly consolidating into a generic web space and very soon almost everything will come with a social flavor. Yesterday’s talk on trends were very similar to my session at Barcamp Bangalore recently. Its true and undeniable, social space will evolve to become the default web space.
Mozilla corporation are themselves working on a feature for their browser that integrates the social space with the webspace. The project called “The Coop”, symbolic of chickens in a farm, is a mapping of your real world contacts on to the browser. You all will definitely remember flock, one of my favorite browsers, built on top the firefox engine. Mozilla’s Coop reminds me a lot about flock and seems like a direct competitor to the social browser.
The project evangelizes scenarios where people can share login and see what their other friends are upto online, have one touch sharing of photos , bookmarks, blog posts, facebook status and others. I don’t remember exactly but there is already a plugin which does almost the same things ( will update when I remember or find it) . So mozilla is in, I suspect MS also to be working behind walls on similar concepts, thanks to their Social Computing Group, who I am a big fan of.
But its clear that social space is gaining in prominence and people are realizing that a wealth of applications can be built around these social concepts. If you have still not seen my slides from Barcamp then do so here, there is definitely something for everyone.
Some screenshots of how the Coop will look
